January - April list by Nanette Alderman
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The Bear and the Nightingale
by Katherine Arden
This debut novel inspired by Russian fairy tales follows the experiences of a wild young girl who taps the mysterious powers of a precious necklace given to her father years earlier to save her village from dark and dangerous forces.
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The Bird and the Sword
by Amy Harmon
The day Lark's mother was killed, she told Lark's father I wouldn’t speak again, and she told him if Lark died, he would die too. Then she predicted the king would sell his soul and lose his son to the sky. Lark just wants to be free, but freedom will require escape, and she's a prisoner of her mother’s curse and her father’s greed. She can’t speak or make a sound, nor wield a sword or beguile a king.
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Burning Bright
by Melissa Mcshane
In 1812, Elinor Pembroke wakes to find her bedchamber in flames--and extinguishes them with a thought. At 21, she is old to manifest magical talent, but the evidence is unmistakable: she not only has the ability to start fires, but the far more powerful ability to control and extinguish them. She is an Extraordinary, and the only one in England capable of wielding fire in over one hundred years.
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The Chilbury Ladies' Choir
by Jennifer Ryan
Letters and journals reveal the struggles, affairs, deceptions and triumphs of five members of a village choir during World War II as they band together to survive the upheavals of war and village intrigue on the English home front.
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Confessions of a Domestic Failure
by Bunmi Laditan
After leaving her career to become a stay-at-home-mom, Ashley Keller tries to improve her parenting skills by joining a boot camp called “Motherhood Better” run by her idol, the head of a Pinterest-perfect mommy blog empire, with hilariously awkward results.
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Dog Dish of Doom
by E. J. Copperman
A talent agent for show-biz animals discovers her knack for solving crimes, in a debut entry of a lighthearted new series that finds her investigating a dispute between a famous stage director and a pushy dog trainer who is found face-down in his canine star's water dish.
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Fire in the Stars
by Barbara Fraser Fradkin
After surviving a horrific trauma in Nigeria, international aid worker Amanda Doucette returns to Canada to rebuild her life and her shaken ideals. There, the once-passionate, adventurous woman needs all her strength and ingenuity when a friend and fellow survivor goes missing along with his son.
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Ginny Moon
by Benjamin Ludwig
Desperately wishing to be reunited with her abusive, drug-addicted birth mother at any cost in spite of finding herself in a wonderful foster home, an autistic 14-year-old struggles to make sense of her world by engaging in strict routines and avoiding the people who would love her.
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The Golden Hour
by T. Greenwood
After fleeing to a remote Maine island to act as caretaker of a friend’s property, Wyn Davies discovers a mysterious time capsule in the basement that ultimately helps her come to grips with a crime committed against her 20 years prior.
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The Hideaway
by Lauren K. Denton
After her last remaining family member dies, Sara Jenkins goes home to The Hideaway, her grandmother Mags's ramshackle B&B in Sweet Bay, Alabama. She intends to quickly tie up loose ends then return to her busy life and thriving antique shop in New Orleans. Instead, she learns Mags has willed her The Hideaway and charged her with renovating it.
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The Last Days of Café Leila
by Donia Bijan
A woman, Noor, visits her native Iran for the first time in three decades with her sulky, rebellious teenage daughter, Lily, who becomes caught up in the dangerous balance between grace and brutal violence that have taken hold of Tehran.
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The Last Night at Tremore Beach
by Mikel Santiago
Taking shelter on an isolated Irish beach to work through a creative crisis, Peter is struck by lightning and begins to suffer headaches and nightmares that blur his perceptions of reality and warn him of imminent danger.
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The Lost Book of the Grail
by Charles C Lovett
An obsessive bibliophile and Holy Grail fanatic combs through centuries of history to uncover a long-lost secret about the medieval Barchester Cathedral library at the side of a young American charged with digitizing the library's manuscripts.
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Mercies in Disguise
by Gina Bari Kolata
A New York Times science reporter traces the experiences of a family of doctors devastated by a genetic illness, describing how a courageous daughter pursued genetic testing to assess her risks and modern fertility options to spare future generations.
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Not a Sound
by Heather Gudenkauf
Losing her hearing in a tragic accident, nurse Amelia Winn suffers through two years of depression before rebuilding her life with the help of an assistance dog, only to find herself enmeshed in a fellow nurse's suspicious death.
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Rabbit cake
by Annie Hartnett
After her mother accidentally drowns while sleepwalking, Elvis Babbitt, who has a gift for remembering scientific facts, tries to come to terms with the circumstances of her mother's death and the bizarre behaviors of her sister and grieving father.
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Say Nothing
by Brad Parks
When their children are abducted by a man who blackmails them to follow instructions at the risk of the children's lives, a judge and his wife endure a terrorizing ordeal of no-holds-barred deceit and bond-breaking suspicions.
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Shadow Man
by Alan Drew
When a serial killer begins breaking into random homes in California's quiet Rancho Santa Elena, detective Ben Wade and forensic specialist Natasha Betencourt confront a long-buried secret and the tragedy of a teen's suicide in order to get ahead of the killer.
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Six Wakes
by Mur Lafferty
Awakening in a cloning vat, streaked with blood and possessing no memory of how she died, new clone Maria Arena discovers the clones of six former starship crew members and must identify their murderer before the killer strikes again.
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Strange Practice
by Vivian Shaw
Dr. Greta Helsing has inherited the family's highly specialized, and highly peculiar, medical practice. She treats the undead for a host of ills - vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights, and entropy in mummies. It's a quiet, supernatural-adjacent life, until a sect of murderous monks emerges, killing human and undead Londoners alike.
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